Zonal flow excitation by drift waves in toroidal plasmas
Conference
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OSTI ID:756505
Recent 3D gyrokinetic and gyrofluid simulations in toroidal plasmas have demonstrated that zonal flows play a crucial role in regulating the nonlinear evolution of electrostatic drift-wave instabilities such as the ion temperature gradient (ITG) modes and, as a consequence, the level of the anomalous ion thermal transport, and that zonal flows could be spontaneously excited by ITG turbulence, suggesting parametric instability processes as the generation mechanism. Diamond et. al. have proposed the modulational instability of drift-wave turbulence ( plasmons ) in a slab-geometry treatment.
- Research Organization:
- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH03073
- OSTI ID:
- 756505
- Report Number(s):
- Cfpaper-4192; TRN: US0003855
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 27th European Physical Society's (EPS) Conference on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics, Budapest (HU), 06/12/2000--06/16/2000; Other Information: PBD: 13 Jun 2000
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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